CPATH-1: Planning for Institutional Transformation through Computational Thinking

纽约城市理工学院的这一概念开发和规划项目正在创建一个基于计算思维(CT)原则的可行的通识教育课程修订模式，并定义学院？S所需的组织和技术基础设施的变化，以支持这种根本性的制度变革。这种模式需要在当前计算机和信息技术快速和持续变化的条件下可行，并适用于不同学科。计算思维已成为未来劳动力的基本能力。今天，信息技术世界变化如此之快，任何孤立的计算课程更新努力几乎一完成就可能过时。这个概念性发展与规划项目在重新设计城市技术S课程及其组织和技术基础设施改造方面的智力价值如下：？连续，而不是断断续续和短暂的；？系统性而不是局部性和孤立；以及？基于计算思维的原则。为了实现这一点，项目团队正在采取多层次的方法，以确保没有遗漏任何级别的组织基础设施，并且所有参与者(管理人员、教职员工、学生和更广泛的社区)都参与其中，并且系统的所有元素都是相辅相成的。这一过程的一个重要部分是开发计算思维的关键指标--可用于评估转型努力的进展以及课程和计划结果的指标。这些也被用来作为在大学核心培养计算思维能力的基础。系级小组正在开发一套模范的跨学科案例研究、教学原型和课程单元，并向学院和更广泛的社区传播。BROADER影响：由于城市理工是一所西班牙裔服务机构，也是美国最多元化的高等教育机构之一，该项目将对STEM中代表性不足的重要城市社区产生影响。由于计算机和信息技术的进步，人类历史上第一次，任何人，无论有没有科学证书，无论有没有特殊手段，都可以接触到正在进行的研究活动。通过跨学科的计算机课程发现新的教与学的方法，并为这些活动提供组织和技术基础设施，将使学生和广大社会能够利用这些独特的和无穷无尽的可能性，从而实现学院的教育使命？S。该项目正在创建的学院内部各系和学校之间的网络将产生深远和持久的影响。通过网络的传播活动将是持续和系统的，通过内部和外部咨询委员会以及在线社区向外传播。

This conceptual development and planning project by the New York City College of Technology is creating a model of viable general education curriculum revision based on the tenets of Computational Thinking (CT), and defining changes in the College?s organizational and technological infrastructure needed to support such fundamental institutional transformation. This model is needed to be viable under current conditions of rapid and continuous changes in computer and information technologies and is applicable across different disciplines.INTELLECTUAL MERIT. Computational thinking has become the essential competency for the workforce of the future. Today, the world of information technology is changing so fast that any isolated effort of computational curriculum update is likely to become obsolete almost as soon as it is completed. The intellectual merit of this Conceptual Development and Planning project in the redesign of City Tech?s curriculum and in the transformation of its organizational and technological infrastructure as:? continuous instead of episodic and short-lived;? systemic instead of local and isolated; and? based on tenets of computational thinking.To achieve this, the project team is taking a multi-level approach to ensure that no level of organizational infrastructure has been missed and that all of the participants (administration, faculty, staff, students, and wider community) are engaged and that all the elements of the system are mutually reinforcing. An important part of this process is be development of Key Indicators of computational thinking?the metrics that can be used to assess the progress of transformational effort, and course and program outcomes. These is also being used to serve as the basis for developing Computational Thinking Literacy in the college core. A set of the exemplary interdisciplinary case studies, instructional prototypes and curriculum units are being developed by the department groups and disseminated to the college and wider community.BROADER IMPACTS: Because City Tech is a Hispanic Serving Institution and one of the most diverse institutions of higher education in the country, this program will have impact on an important urban community that is underrepresented in STEM. Due to advances of computer and information technology, for the first time in human history, any person, with or without scientific credentials, with or without special means, may have access to ongoing research activities. Discovering new ways of teaching and learning through interdisciplinary computational curricula and providing organizational and technological infrastructure for these activities will give the students and the broader community the ability to take advantage of these unique and endless possibilities, and will thereby fulfill the educational imperative of the college?s mission.The web of interrelationships among departments and schools within this college that this project is creating will have far-reaching and long-lasting effect. Dissemination activities through the web will be continuous and systemic, reaching outward through internal and external advisory boards and the online community.